The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and one of the departments under the Government of Singapore. This is of especially critical importance to the city-state, because Singapore is an extremely dense country where land usage is required to be efficient and maximised in order to reduce land wastage in the face of land shortage. The URA is also responsible for assisting to facilitate racial harmony, such as to have their urban planning avoid segregation, as well as seeking ways to improve aesthetics and to reduce congestion. It is also responsible for the conservation of historic and cultural buildings and national heritage sites. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Ura_logo. ... Jump to: navigation, search Paris, France: One of the worlds great cities that began unplanned, but was later re-engineered through the construction of an extensive system of wide boulevards overlaid on the medieval street grid, by the Baron Haussmann under the reign of Napoleon III in the 19th... The Government of Singapore is formed by the political party which gains a 50% majority in the general elections held in Singapore at least once every four years. ... A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. ... Land is sometimes used synonymously with country. ... Jump to: navigation, search Aesthetics (also esthetics and æsthetics) is the philosophy of beauty and art. ... Congestion is a state of excessive accumulation or overfilling or overcrowding. ... Conservation may refer to the following: Conservation ethic in relation to preserving ecosystems Conservationist Conservation movement Conservation ecology Conservation law of physics Conservation of energy Conservation of mass Conservation in genetics Conservation in psychology Prolonging the material integrity of cultural and artistic objects Art conservation Architectural conservation or immovable object... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... Heritage tourism involves visiting historical or industrial sites that may include old canals, railways, battlegrounds, etc. ...
The UrbanRedevelopment Law is intended to give wide scope to municipalities in redesigning and rebuilding such areas within their limits as, by reason of passage of years and enormous changes in traffic conditions and types of building constructions, no longer meet economic and social needs of modern city life and progress.
Redeveloper’s surety agreement with county redevelopmentauthority, to pay condemnation costs that were not funded by grants from Commonwealth, was an improper delegation of authority to redeveloper, where the surety agreement also required redeveloper's prior written consent before the authority could exercise its eminent domain powers.
Redeveloper is not required to make instant use of all land taken, and to exclude from redevelopment area patches of ground here and there would violate one of the purposes of the act, which is to assemble parcels of land into a unified whole and thereby to make area available for redevelopment purposes.
The authority was established on 1 April 1974, and is of especially critical importance to the city-state, because Singapore is an extremely dense country where land usage is required to be efficient and maximised in order to reduce land wastage in the face of land shortage.
The URA is also responsible for assisting to facilitate racial harmony, such as to have their urban planning avoid segregation, as well as seeking ways to improve aesthetics and to reduce congestion.
This is the responsibility of URA to evaluate and grant planning approval for development projects from the public and private sectors.
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